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...Vagrants. Strangest of all the groups in the camps are the blatnye, the criminals, who take the best bunks, get the best food. "They belonged," wrote Dr. Scholmer, "to a tightly knit organization with rigid laws of its own which is to be found in every camp in Vorkuta. The organization is made up to a large extent of former besprizornye, the vagrant children who have been characteristic of the Soviet Union. I never once saw one so much as lay hands on a shovel. His companions would murder him if he did. The camp authorities put them officially into...
...strangest examples of misguided idealism in those innocent first days after World War II was Article 9 in the constitution which Douglas MacArthur handed down to the Japanese. Says Article 9: "The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation, and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes. Land, sea and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained." After Korea, Douglas MacArthur himself had to direct a semantic flanking movement around Article 9. Japan's "ground self-defense force" now counts about...
Perhaps the varsity's strangest event is the hurdles, where the Terriers are the weskits. "Rittenhurg should win the hurdles with comparative case," McCurdy said. Sophomore Joel Cohen and Paul Rosenthal give the Crimson good depth in this event...
Shortly after Dirksen finished came one of the strangest performances of last or any other week. Republican Leader William Knowland announced that he had decided not to support the Watkins committee in its recommendation of censure. His argument: McCarthy's offenses had been committed before McCarthy's re-election...
They were local boys, safely down from the hills, where they had been fellaghas (nationalist outlaws), hunted by posses of steel-helmeted French troops. They had come in obedience to one of the strangest truces in modern history: a French promise to forgive past offenses, and give them immunity from prosecution, if they surrendered with their arms...